²¹ “Son of man, turn and face the city of Sidon and prophesy against it.

² “Son of man, turn and face the mountains of Israel and prophesy against them.

¹⁵ Canaan’s oldest son was Sidon, the ancestor of the Sidonians. Canaan was also the ancestor of the Hittites,^[a]

² “Son of man, turn and face the land of Ammon and prophesy against its people.

²² and the kings of Tyre and Sidon, and the kings of the regions across the sea.

⁴ “What do you have against me, Tyre and Sidon and you cities of Philistia? Are you trying to take revenge on me? If you are, then watch out! I will strike swiftly and pay you back for everything you have done. ⁵ You have taken my silver and gold and all my precious treasures, and have carried them off to your pagan temples. ⁶ You have sold the people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks,^[a] so they could take them far from their homeland.

⁷ “But I will bring them back from all the places to which you sold them, and I will pay you back for everything you have done. ⁸ I will sell your sons and daughters to the people of Judah, and they will sell them to the people of Arabia,^[b] a nation far away. I, the Lord, have spoken!”

³⁰ “All the princes of the north and the Sidonians are there with others who have died. Once a terror, they have been put to shame. They lie there as outcasts with others who were slaughtered by the sword. They share the shame of all who have descended to the pit.

² “Son of man, turn and face Egypt and prophesy against Pharaoh the king and all the people of Egypt.